Akademisk Boldklub or AB is a Danish football club from Copenhagen. It was formed in 1889 by a group of academics. To play for the club it was a requirement to be a university student. The club was a dominant factor in early Danish football and won the Danish championship (introduced 1913) in 1919 and 1921, the club has won the championship on 9 occasions (1919, 1921, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1967). One of the most renown players of the club, Harald Bohr is the brother of the famous Niels Bohr. Other notorious footballers from the AB history includes Knud Lundberg who played for the Danish national team in not one, but three sports (basketball, handball and football), and Karl Aage Hansen, who scored 17 goals in 22 matches for the national team. Both Lundberg and Hansen played for the club in it's heyday, from the end of the world war to the mid-fifties (four championships within ten years). Since the 70's and especially after the introduction of professional football (in the 80's) the club has had a difficult time outside the top of Danish football. The exception being the late 90's - in 1996 the club got promoted to the top division, and enjoyed a couple of years with success, reaching a 3rd place finish in both 1999 and 2000. Today the club plays on the second highest level in Denmark. Image File history File links AkademiskBoldklub. ... Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) The Current Laws of the Game (LOTG) The Rec. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... The Danish Superliga is the official Danish football championship tournament. ... Harald Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician, and younger brother of the physicist Niels Bohr. ... Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ... Sara Giauro takes a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ...

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